I’m popping round, sugar-coated, chocolate-flavored candy at an alarming rate. To what end? Inspiration, my friend, inspiration. You deserve better, of course — much better, but I’m out of peanut M&Ms and Hershey’s Kisses, so I’ve stooped to using cheap knock-off candy from Canada.
I’d have preferred a burning bush, like Moses faced that fateful day in Exodus, Chapter 3:
So he looked, and behold, the bush was burning with fire, but the bush was not consumed. Then Moses said, “I will now turn aside and see this great sight, why the bush does not burn.” So when the Lord saw that he turned aside to look, God called to him from the midst of the bush and said, “Moses, Moses!” And he said, “Here I am.”
So, here I am …
Wouldn’t you have loved to learn about my chance encounter with a remarkable tree that spoke eloquently to me through flickering flames — instead of the self-induced razzle-dazzling quality of cheap chocolate hyped by a sugar-triggered high?
Not that it’s been a bad week:
Last Sunday, my 13-year-old granddaughter Kenedie got baptized in the Gulf of Mexico. (I was not able to go, but I’ve seen the video — on Facebook.)
Later in the week, Kenedie’s Mum (my daughter Rachel), turned 37. I remember well the day of her birth. (I’ve only seen one baby being born, so you can appreciate the impact.)
Missed Thursday night Men’s Bible Study at my church thanks to a stomach problem of some sort that kept me doubled up in pain for several days.
Did not miss the Saturday morning Men’s Breakfast of pancakes, home fries, sausage and bacon. (Quite good.)
Slept in all Sunday morn — much to my chagrin, because that’s typically when I pen my Meditations.
So here I am, at 1:11 p.m., having haphazardly pieced together a string of random thoughts — the consequence of cheap Canadian chocolates combined with a ceramic cup of Keurig-brewed Starbucks Caffé Verona.
Shame. Shame. Shame.
But, one hopes, better than “The Nothing” that might have been … yes, much better than that, even without the Burning Bush.
SUNDAY MEDITATIONS ARCHIVE: Click here.
